 To be vigilant as garther investigations continue into three separate attacks on older people in their homes. An appeal for witnesses has been launched after two elderly people were threatened at Knife Point in Grona Brawhar in Cork City shortly after half past seven yesterday. The intruder left the scene with a sum of cash. The man in the seventies and woman in her eighties were treated at the scene for non-life threatening injuries. Similar aggravated burglaries have taken place in Slago and Kildare in recent weeks. Minister Charlie McHonolog says these attacks are despicable. He has the right to feel safe. Any threat or any attack severely undermines that and people sense their own security. So I know it's something that the Guardi and in terms of community policing are prioritising and are assessing and providing support in local communities and also there's a real role there as well for local communities to be aware of their neighbours and to provide that sense of support too. The Minister for Foreign Affairs says war in the Ukraine is not inevitable. Simon Coveney's comments come as Germany's new chancellor heads to Kiev for talks with the Ukrainian president before travelling to Moscow to warn Vladimir Putin of the heavy consequences of an invasion. Simon Coveney says he's cautiously optimistic that war can be avoided. I think war can be averted but we also have to be realistic that it is a very real possibility and we have to be prepared for how we would respond to that. And certainly over the weekend I would not have given the instruction to change the travel advice to ask all our citizens in Ukraine to leave immediately if I wasn't concerned. The issue of the continued use of face masks in schools will be the focus of talks today. Public health advisers and officials from the Department of Education are meeting to consider what Covid measures should stay in place after the midterm break. It's the first formal review of the situation in schools since restrictions in wider society eased. The CEO of the National Parents Council, Anja Lynch, says many parents want to see the rules around masks relaxed. Generally they're concerned about their children's social-emotional development and the children are not, you know, don't want to wear them so every day sometimes it can be a struggle getting them to put them on and I think then on the other side of it they're saying their children aren't wearing them properly, they often pull them down to talk to each other. Sunny spells to start today, isolated showers early on but they'll die out on the afternoon, highest temperatures five to seven degrees Celsius. It'll feel cooler though in a fresh to strong northwest wind, cold and frosty tonight to start but temperatures will rise as the night goes on. A strengthening southwest wind will veer westerly with heavy rain, bringing a risk of localized flooding in places. That rain will clear as we head toward morning with showers. Following tomorrow Tuesday, mostly dry to start with some sunshine, moderate to fresh westerly winds backing southerly for a time. Again, tomorrow temperatures hitting five to seven degrees Celsius. That's Island Radio News, back with more at 10 o'clock. Love can conquer fear. When you already struggle, shocks like COVID can be devastating. In East Africa, everything just shut down and Woobit was left with no way to feed her children. That's when Troker provided a sewing machine and training to make face masks. Now Woobit has a new skill she can use to provide for her family in the long term. To find out more about how women have conquered fear and gained independence, visit troker.org slash change. Troker until love conquers fear. The Night Till New Show is brought to you by Letterkenny Credit Union, offering low-rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Night In New Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And a very good morning to you. It is four minutes past nine on this Monday, the 14th of February. It is Valentine's Day. And to mark Valentine's Day, St. Valentine's Day, we have a load of great prices to give away on the program over the three hours of the show. So if you want to be with a chance to win something on this day for lovers, we'll then stay tuned. We'll give you details of how you can get involved in that in the not too distant future. We've lots coming up on the show. Our Monday focus is going to be really asking the question, where are we in terms of an enhanced mic at redress scheme? We have a number of guests on 11 to discuss that issue. There's that and there's so much more. Besides, we want you involved in the program as well. As I say, we hopefully have an entertaining show lined up for you. But if there is an issue you want to raise or a comment you wish to make, maybe something good happened to you, a good smaritain helped you out or a story you want to tell us in that regard to the lines are open for all of it. 086625,000 WhatsApps and texts. 086625,000. I'll give us a call on 07491 25,000. And it's good to have a letter of credit union on board, bringing the show to you all this week as well. Right. Now, the Daily People, Donegal News, Monday edition. This morning tells us that a number of planned surgeries scheduled to take place at the University Hospital this week have been canceled due to pressure on beds. It follows confirmation that hospital has again been forced to implement its emergency escalation plan amid ongoing concerns around the impact of COVID-19 and increased activity due to winter related illness. Additional temporary beds were opened in LUH each day last week, while one time critical elective surgeries took place. Sorry, only time critical elective surgeries took place. Medical six has been opened as an overflow ward to try and alleviate the pressure within the emergency department. Onto the dairy news now and baby Lewis born July 2020 has lived his whole life with a rare condition currently not recognised as a rare disease. Jennifer Lewis's mother said she has found that many consultants in the north do not know the best way to treat him and it's after feeling frustrated and abandoned. Lewis requires full time care and Jennifer is calling for Lewis's condition to be recognised as a rare disease. And you can read more on that in the paper today. Onto the nationals now and US President Joe Biden has been invited to visit Ukraine soon in a bid to send a signal to Russia. There's a couple of sort of realities ongoing at the moment. There's the international situation where a lot of people are all very worried about an imminent attack and the implications that might have and get out of Ukraine. It's not safe yet within Ukraine. Those people would be most directed directly affected by this. There's more for calmness. So people are getting on with their lives as normal. Hopefully we'll be able to speak to some people from or originating from Ukraine on the program. But if maybe you have an insight into that, maybe you are listening to us on your Alexa in Kiev. If you are over in Ukraine or you've got connections to Ukraine, get in touch with us 08 660 25000. But if you want to use the international dialing code, of course, 003538 660 25000. But Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, issued the invitation to Biden when he spoke to Mr. Biden by phone yesterday as tensions continue to rise over massive Russian troops building up on the border. But what is in it for Russia to do some large scale invasion? It doesn't make an awful lot of sense. It's possible they could do something similar to when they win and then and annexed Ukraine. I'm not sure how many bullets were fired during that process, but we shall see what comes to pass. We're being told in the Irish Times that tens of thousands of people are affected by a severe shortage of family doctors. As news figures show, 13 GP areas for medical card holders have been without a permanent physician for a year or longer. Health Service Executive figures show there are 26 vacancies for doctors on general medical services panels covering more than 17,000 medical card holders and more than half of these vacancies are in towns and villages in rural areas. The numbers do not include tens of thousands more private patients served by GPs in this area. And that is a problem we've been flagging on this program for a number of years. We haven't really. We have hosted GPs expressing this concern. Where are the replacements? And it's a problem that needs to be resolved as soon as is possible. Right on to the Irish Daily Mail now and hotels have cancelled travellers bookings telling them they've been double booked to stop them from organising weddings or other family events. The Irish traveller movement has claimed common hotel excuses include a double booking, a mistake by a staff member for non availability at the venue, excuses that don't apply when a non traveller applies for the same dates, the ITM said. The group said it got non travellers to call hotels to check the way of investigation or by wave investigation of malpractice. In one case in 2019, a traveller woman whose daughter was due to marry booked a wedding venue for 150 guests, which was cancelled with one week's notice, the ITM said. The hotel cancelled the wedding with an apology and had been an error resulting in a double booking, which was only spotted a week in advance. However, the family attests that on booking there was clarity across all of booking requirements and deposits given well in advance, the group said. It said the problem is is a consistent finding when hotels take a booking and discover later the person is a traveller. The ITM and Irish human rights and a quality commissioner calling for an amendment to the Intoxication Liquor Act, which would move discrimination cases currently taken to the district court to the Workplace Relations Commission, where payouts to victims of discrimination are larger. Right on to the red top tabloids here. And the Sun has says sorry, the Sun reports that justice campaigner has described laws that would allow prosecutors to challenge sex offenders character references in quarters. Fantastic, but insists the practice should be scrapped all together. Kildare native Emma Jane Dempsey has been campaigning for an end to politicians writing references for people involved in sex crimes. Phinegal Senator Regina Daherty has proposed new laws that will make people who provide such character references will have to do so under oath and be open to face cross examination. Doesn't seem terribly unreasonable. Senator Daherty said victims are being retraumatised by current practices, which can put others off taking a case in the first place. So I suppose the the victim has already gone through a very difficult trial and they're sitting there and their local TV or senator or leading business person is full of praise of the person perhaps found guilty of attacking them. You can see how that would be very worrying. All right, on to the Irish Daily Mirror now. And a total of one hundred and forty three cases of suspected sex abuse in nursing homes and residential disability centres were reported in the last seven years. This, of course, something we're acutely aware of in this part of the world. There were 87 in nursing homes and 56 in the disability centres. The Health Information and Quality Authority has revealed it's understood the vast majority of victims were elderly and disabled women and many had dementia. The allegations were made by relatives, anonymous sources and staff, including the HSE safeguarding and protection team. Some of the cases were referred to the Guardi, but others weren't and they didn't get involved until the HICWA forced facilities to do so. I mean, so you're having your first line of the law and inverted commas is the person or the organisation receiving the accusation. Surely all of those accusations should be forward on to Guardi, shouldn't they? Last year was the worst. Thirty two reported incidents followed by twenty sixteen with twenty seven in the first few weeks of twenty twenty two five cases were to come to light. That is the mirror there. And finally, actually, I've lost the story from the start. The paper that page I was looking at has got lost in the jumble. 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